Recruit

Recruit is a free, open-source website template for recruitment agencies and talent acquisition teams, built with Astro, Tailwind CSS, and DaisyUI. It turns Markdown content into a fast, SEO-ready site for publishing job openings, introducing your team, and maintaining an industry blog. The template is available on GitHub under the username anastasiiaxfr and draws design inspiration from a free recruitment website UI kit on Figma Community.

What is Recruit?

Recruit is a modern, responsive website template for recruitment agencies and talent acquisition teams. It takes content written in Markdown and MDX and generates a static site with pages for home, about, jobs, jobs detail, blog, blog detail, and 404/500 errors. Built on Astro, with Tailwind CSS 4 and DaisyUI for styling, it produces a lightweight, accessible output that runs on any static host. The template was created by developer anastasiiaxfr and is hosted on GitHub.

Key Features

• Lighthouse performance — The template achieves a 99+/100 score in Lighthouse performance audits, as evidenced by the linked PageSpeed Insights report.
• SEO essentials — Canonical URLs, meta tags, Open Graph data, JSON-LD schema, sitemap.xml, robots.txt, and an RSS feed are included by default.
• Markdown & MDX — Jobs, blog posts, and pages are authored in Markdown or MDX files placed in the src/content directory, using Astro's content collections.
• PWA support — The site is installable as a progressive web app, enabling offline access and app-like behavior for visitors.
• Responsive & accessible — Fully responsive layouts and built-in accessibility features ensure the site works across devices and screen readers.
• Easy deployment — Static output makes deployment to Vercel, Netlify, or Cloudflare Pages as simple as connecting the repository.
• Included pages — Home, about, jobs index, job detail, blog index, blog post detail, and 404/500 pages come ready in the project structure.

Who is it for?

Recruitment agencies and staffing firms can use Recruit to present their services, list open positions, and guide candidates to apply. Talent acquisition teams in companies of any size can deploy it as a careers microsite, and independent recruiters or career consultants can leverage the blog to share market trends and attract inbound candidates.

What can you do with Recruit?

• Recruitment agencies: Publish job vacancies with dedicated detail pages and present their hiring services to prospective clients.
• Career bloggers: Share insights about hiring trends, interview tips, and workplace culture through the built-in blog with Markdown support.
• HR and talent teams: Launch a professional, SEO-optimized careers page without writing code from scratch, using the pre-built templates.

How does Recruit work?

After cloning the repository, run npm install to install dependencies, then npm run dev for local development. Content is added as Markdown or MDX files under src/content, and npm run build generates a static dist folder that can be deployed to any hosting service.

FAQ

Is Recruit free to use?

Recruit's repository is publicly available on GitHub, and the template is free to download and modify. The page does not specify a license, so check the repository for licensing details before commercial use.

What tech stack does Recruit use?

Recruit uses Astro as the site framework, Tailwind CSS 4 and DaisyUI for styling, and Markdown or MDX for content. The project structure follows Astro conventions with folders like assets, components, content, layouts, and pages.

How do I run Recruit locally?

Clone the repository, run npm install, then npm run dev to start a local server at localhost:4321. Use npm run build to create a production build in the dist folder.

Where can I deploy Recruit?

Recruit outputs static HTML, so it can be deployed to Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, or any other static hosting provider.

Does Recruit include SEO features?

Yes, Recruit includes canonical URLs, meta tags, Open Graph data, JSON-LD schema, sitemap.xml, robots.txt, and an RSS feed to help with search visibility and social sharing.